New study shows loss of sea ice will require walruses to swim more and eat more to survive climate change
Third collection of articles, authored or co-authored by Daniel Pauly.
Tags: British Columbia, Ecopath, Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE), Faculty, Global Ocean Modelling, IOF students, Modelling, Peru, Research, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Villy Christensen, whales
GOM took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, moving online, and connecting with researchers from 29 countries.
Tags: Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Blue economy, CORU, Faculty, IOF Research Associates, Ocean Nexus Center, Research, William Cheung
A recent UBC-led study found that socioeconomic and governance conditions such as national stability, corruption and human rights greatly affect the ability to achieve a Blue Economy.
The University of Kerala’s Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries awarded this honour for his notable contributions to fisheries science.
Tags: Andrew Trites, birds, British Columbia, Faculty, herons, Indigenous fisheries, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Research, salmon, seabirds
Looking for predators that ate salmon, an Indigenous biologist suggested looking at heron. Discarded tags proved Pacific great blue herons could be scooping up as many as 3-6% of all juvenile salmon.
The paper, written in 1999 by Dr. Curtis Suttle (UBC) and Dr. Steven Wilhelm (University of Tennessee), is honoured for leading to a "fundamental shift in research focus and interpretation."
Tags: Andrew Trites, Animal movement, British Columbia, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, IOF students, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Pacific, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales
In August 2020, Marine Mammal Research Unit (MMRU) researchers set sail to determine whether there are enough chinook salmon to support southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea.
Tags: Andrew Trites, Arctic, Faculty, IOF postdoctoral fellows, Marine Mammal Research Unit, Marine mammals, Research, Sarah Fortune, whales
Understanding the needs of bowheads is a crucial first step taken to learn how they will respond to climate change.
"We learned that the water and sediments are polluted with microplastics. The global ocean is basically a dump. We need to change our behaviours, our preferences and our consumption.”